Butter-churn.



No. 844,464. PATENTED FEB. 19, 1907.

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APPLICATION FILED MAY 5. 1906.

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UNITED STATES PATENT FFTQE.

BUTTER-CHURNr Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Feb. 19, 1907.

Application filed May 5,1906. Serial No. 315,329.

To all whom it may concern.-

a citizen of the United States, residing at Denmark, in the county of Bamberg and State of South Carolina, have invented a new and useful Butter-Churn, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to churns; and it has for one of its objects to provide a novel article of manufacture which comprises a bracket, a dasher, and a dasher-rotating means and which isadapted to be secured to any supp ort, as a wall, and in connection with which any ordinary churn-body may be used.

With this and other objects in view my invention consists in the article of manufacture hereinafter described and claimed, it being understood that minor changes in form and proportion of parts may be resorted to without departing from the princlple of my invention or sacrificing any of its advantages.

In this specification and in the accomp anying drawings, forming a part thereof, the same reference characters are used to designate the same parts throughout.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is a perspective view of one form of device embodying my invention. Fig. 2 is a perspective view of a modified form of dasher which may be substituted for the dasher shown in Fig. 1.

The bracket 1 comprises the rear plate 2, top and bottom plates 3 and 4, and end pieces 5, all secured firmly together by any well-known means. In the forward edges of the top and bottom plates 3 and 4 slots 6 and 7, havin semicircular bottom portlons, are provide and in the said slots 1s rotatably mounted the shaft 8' of a dasher 9. The shaft 8 is of the same diameter throughout its length, so that it can be raised or lowered with respect to the bracket in order to position the paddle portion thereof or dasher 9 at the prop er point in the churn or creamholder. (Shown by dotted lines.) The slot 6 in the top plate 3 is provided with a keep er 10, which, as shown, is made in the form of a turn-button. It is evident that any wellknown form of movable keeper may be used instead of the turn-button.

A bar 11 is rigidly secured to the top and bottom plates in alined accesses therein. Ihis bar does not extend beyond the top plate 3, but does extend downwardly below the bottom plate 4. At the lower end of the bar 4 is pivoted a lever 11, the grip portion tion.

] whereof extends for some distance above the 'Be it known that I, SAMUEL M. PEARSON, i top plate 3.

Upon the end pieces 5 of the bracket 1 are pulley-blocks 12, around the pulleys'of which an endless cord 13 or its equivalent is passed, the rear bight of the cord passing across the rear part of bracket from pulley to pulley. The forward bight is wound several times directly about the shaft 8 and is secured to the lever 1 1. By moving the hand-lever back and forth the dasher 9 is rotated first in one direction and then in the other. The cord 13, which passes over the pulleys, may, if desired, be made up in part of a strip of leather 14, having eyelets therein, so that the tautness of the said cord may be readily adjusted, as will be evident.

If desired, the dasher 9 may be withdrawn from the slots 6 and 7, the keeper 10 over slot 6 being first removed, the elasticity of the cord readily permitting such manipula- The dasher may then be moved down to the neighborhood of the pulley-block 12 at the left-hand end of the device, where, as shown, the top and bottom plates do not extend so far forward as is the case at their middle portions, and the dasher can then be readily removed, or, if desired, the cord 13 can be lengthened by means of the leather strip 14 and eyeletstherein and the dasher removed.

It is unnecessary to provide means for maintaining the dasher in an elevated position, as the dasher, being made of wood, is held elevated by its flotation and also by the friction of the cord 13.

The preferred form of dasher is shown in Fig. 1. This form of dasher is open at its center and is of'an elongated oval shape, with somewhat sharpened ends, the longer axis being the vertical one. I find that by rounding the outer contour of a dasher made in this form I am able to dash the contents of the churn toward its top, bottom, and sides, and by rounding the edges of the opening therein the liquid contents are dashed toward the center of the churn, and this combination of currents is very efficacious in readily extracting the butter from the cream.

I fix a feather 16 in the dasher to prevent the settling of flies and other insects upon the churn.

The article of manufacture hereinabove described may be placed upon the wall in the farmers kitchen, for example, during the winter and allowed to remain there, the churn or cream-holder being placed under- IIO math when the device is to be used. In the summer it may be placed out of doors in any convenient situation where a proper support can be obtained. The churn being placed in position beneath my device, the same is operated by merely oscillating the lever 11. v

The shaft 8 of the dasher, it will be observed, is of sufficient length to permit the bracket 1 to be raised or lowered with respect thereto for supporting it at any desired height above the floor. This is advantageous, since churns of different sizes may be readily used with the same supporting-bracket and handle, according to the quantity of cream to be churned. When a large churn is to be employed, the bracket will be supported higher up on the wall than shown. The shaft 8 of the dasher being of the same diameter throughout its length can bear at any point in the journal-bearings 6 and 7. In changing the position of the bracket the belt where it laps around the dasher-shaft is shifted up or down on the latter to the desired point, so that the front length of the belt will be on the same level with the back length.

What I claim is The combination of a Wall-bracket adapted to be supported at any desired height, comprising a horizontal back plate having apertures at its ends for receiving means to secure it to a wall and top and bottom plates secured to the back plate, a depending member secured to the front edges of the top and bottom plates, a lever pivoted at its lower end on the depending member with its upper end projecting above the top plate and arranged to move along the front edges of the top and bottom plates, journal-bearings on the top and bottom plates, a single-piece dasher adjustable vertically with and independently of the brackets and having a shaft portion of uniform cross-section throughout its length rotatably held in the bearings and shiftable longitudinally therein, pulleys supported on the bracket at opposite sides of the lever and paddle, and a belt passing around the pulley and lapping directly around the dasher-shaft and detachably connected at one end to the lever for rotating the paddle, the said belt serving to suspend the paddle and prevent the latter from moving longitudinally against the effect of its weight.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my own I have hereto affixed my signature in the presence of two witnesses.

SAMUEL M. PEARSON.

Witnesses:

O. T. BAMBERG, J. W. ARLEDGE. 

